Replenishment Analyst- 12 Months FTC

at  Dunelm

OVERVIEW

Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.
At Dunelm, that’s what we do.
With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores. We operate the UK’s largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We’re also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our Conscious Choice product lines.
Our purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.’ We have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand’, ambitious about being a good company’, and ‘ambitious about profitable growth’. We’re focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.
This role operates within our Commercial structure alongside our Buying and Merchandising Teams.
As a Category Replenishment Planner, I am responsible for managing internal inventory to maximise store and web availability for my category. This involves coordinating with the Merchandising team and third parties to maintain a healthy stock pipeline and managing replenishment parameters to ensure timely and appropriate stock levels in the right locations, at the right time. Considering demand, I align store space plannings to define Minimum Credible Display levels. I also manage replenishment parameters, which includes being responsible for creating and maintaining the Min Fills (Presentation Levels) accounting for multiple locations.
I work closely with my category’s Merchandising team, Demand Planner and external third parties.
This role is a hybrid opportunity.
We recruit people from all types of backgrounds, who share our entrepreneurial, hands-on approach to work. We are committed to creating a full inclusive environment that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value and importance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neuro-diversity, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education.

Manage your categories / departments web/store inventory in line with the forecast:

• Use the F&R forecast to monitor daily exceptions for order proposals, flagging any irregularities with your Demand Planner.
• Set and amend Minimum Credible Display Levels and manage the team to do so.
• Regularly review master data in the F&R tool flagging any inaccuracies in Product status, Weights & Dimensions and Merch Categories to your Merchandising team to correct
• Working closely with Merchandising and the InStore Experience team to manage Sunflower ranging Overrides, ensuring master data is kept up to date for any product location exceptions to regular grading rules
• Create and maintain order delivery schedules to ensure everything has a relevant order group assigned to it (e.g. New Store group, Christmas, Supplier Closures).
• Support order scheduling for new stores, and refits by working closely with the New Stores team,
• Support order scheduling for store closures by working closely with the New Stores team and ensuring closure dates are updated in F&R and that stock levels ramp down over an appropriate amount of time ready for the exit date.
• Review longer term store order and delivery projections (e.g. Sale)
• Prohibition on Purchase Checks (POPs)
• Review Store Order Amendments to support stores with replenishment best practice
• Managing prohibitions when we need to cease replenishment into stores (new – gone into central)
• Review relevant KPI’s weekly, in preparation for Monthly KPI review with the F&R Centre of Excellence team (opportunity for Senior role to own).
• Share Daily Volume Report Nothing stops to support Supply Chain planning
• Automated job checks
• Share Delivery Projections with the GXO team to support workforce planning and Supply Chain activity
• Review and propose plans for discontinued overstock with relevant stakeholders, to ensure 3 rd party sites and the web are clean and efficient
• Understand how to raise allocations from web distribution centres to stores
• Review relevant KPI’s weekly, in preparation for Monthly KPI review with the F&R Centre of Excellence team
• Good stock report
• Health check – ISA review
• Disservice report
• Back orders